Professor Venator joins 17 other leading scholars of the Latino experience on the inaugural Scholarly Advising Committee of the National Museum of the American Latino . Further news here.
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Ballard Exhibit Highlights Depth of Puerto Rican Puppetry to Educate, Entertain, Advocate
The Ballard exhibit highlights depth of Puerto Rican Puppetry, you can read more through UConn Today.
El Instituto MA Student Co-authors Paper on Immigrants’ School Adjustment
UConn alum Oxana Sidorova and Neag faculty member Rebecca Campbell-Montalvo published a paper, in the American Education Research Association’s Open Forum journal, based on their research on health access assistance provided by school employees to Mexican and indigenous Guatemalan families.
El Instituto Featured on WFSB News
WFSB News reporter Christian Colón reported on the academic programs of El Instituto as a Hispanic Heritage Month feature.
National Hispanic Heritage Month Puts Focus on Latinx Experience at UConn
UConn Today posted an article about Latinx Experience at UConn!
UConn Stamford Professor, Human Rights Filmmaker Oscar Guerra Earns Two Emmy Nominations
Oscar Guerra is an assistant professor of film and video in the Digital and Design Department at the Department at UConn Stamford. During the extremely hard time we all faced last year because of COVID-19, Guerra captured real insight of a immigrant family from Guatemala and how COVID-19 affected their family. The documentary was named […]
Instituto MA Alumni Win Fellowship to Promote Campus Latinx Dialogues
Latinx and Latin American Studies MA graduates, Pauline Batista and Lauren Pérez-Bonilla (now doctoral students in UCONN Geography and Education, respectively), together with History doctoral student Claudio Daflon, have been awarded an Initiative on Campus Dialogs (ICD) Fellowship to develop a year-long project, “Vamos!” Vamos! seeks to gather UConn’s growing Latinx population within a space […]
La Comunidad Student’s Research Highlighted in UCONN Today
A recent story in UCONN Today featured research on Latinx Huskies’ experiences at UConn and after college. The project was led by Brianna Chance (SFA ’23), La Comunidad student and vocal performance (Music) major, with the guidance of founding Comunidad Director and Communication and El Instituto core faculty member, Diana Rios.
Instituto Affiliate Elizabeth Howard Wins Major Department of Education Grant
Together with UConn faculty Professor Manuela Wagner (LCL), Assistant Professor Aarti Bellara (EPSY), Neag School of Education Associate Professor have worked alongside Instituto affiliate faculty member Elizabeth Howard who has won a $179,000 grant from the US Department of Education for a three-year research project, “Reimagining Dual Language Education: Promoting Equitable Bilingualism and Biliteracy Outcomes […]
Rise Of The Latino Vote: Hispanic Identity At The Polls on The Daily Campus Newspaper
Rise Of The Latino Vote was held on October 7, 2020 through Facebook live at 7pm. For more information about the event, it’s posted on the Daily Campus.